Photo by Charlie Pfaff
Mt. Tabor's Josh Miller led the Spartans to a 2 O-point victory over East Forsyth on Tuesday.
Miller finished the game with 25 points.
Spartans' size too
much for Eagles
BY ANTHONY HILL
THE CHRONICLI
The East Forsyth junior
varsity basketball squad fit the
mold of a pesky team when it
played a talented Mt. Tabor
squad on Tuesday night. Just
when it seemed like the Spar
tans were about to deliver the
knockout blow against East,
the Eagles would simply pick
themselves up off the canv?.
However. Mt. Tabor's size
and defensive strategies
played a k^y role down the
stretcn as me spar
tans came away
with a 74-54 win at
home. The Spar
tans also benefited
from a great game
by Josh Miller, who
finished with 25
points, four
rebounds and three
steals. Miller was
'moved from the
point guard posi
lion to Ihe shooting guard
position to give him more
scoring opportunities. And, it
paid off for the Spartans as he
scorched the Eagles with an
impressive performance.
"I'm going to tell you this:
Josh is a great player," said
Mt. Tabor , head JV coach
Monte Gray. "He can really
stroke it from the outside. We
found out that Josh can really
light it up when you put him in
a scoring position. We moved
him to the two spot, and put
Darion Jackson at one. And,
you saw thut he could stroke it
tonight."
Miller added: "I think the
move was beneficial to me
because il lei me score more
tonight. It's still the same ol'
thing, though. I just went out
there and played hard. This is
what I always do."
The Spartans began the
game as fiPthey were going to
mop the floor with the Eagles.
Mt. Tabor ended the opening
quarter with as much as a
seven point lead. Then, the
Spartans increased it to as
much as 14 points in the sec
ond quarter. Adam
Kingsmoore, Millfer, Ritchie
Lyons and John
MacDonald all
played great in the
first half, and helped
the Spartans to a 33
26 halftime lead.
"We came out
strong at the start of
the game," Miller
said. "Then, we kind
of fell off toward the
second half. We
knew that we had to
put something
together in the second half."
Obviously, the Eagles felt
the same way as they placed
like champions in the second
half. Mt. Tabor was able to
grab as high as a 12-point
lead. That's when the Eagles
made a tremendous run. East
was able to get to within eight
points at the end of the third
quarter. The Eagle charge was
led by the talented Nick
Corak, who finished the game
with 19 points, four rebounds
and two steals. Michael Cole
man and Justin Jordan also
made big plays for East in the
third quarter. The Eagles con
See Rams on B7
Same destination, different paths
Six signs with Charleston Southern
Hall signs with Norfolk State
BY ANTHONY HILL
III! CHRON1CI I
Michael Six and James Hall
both had dreams of playing col
lege football after their playing
days at R.J. Reynolds High
School were over. Both player;
also felt they had a legitimate
chance at earning a scholarship
before they graduated from high
school.
Well, before the start of last
season. Six was the only player
with a realistic shot at getting a
scholarship. Six was one of the
highest rated linebackers in the
area before the season started. He
found himself a little injured and
very frustrated by the middle of
the season. So he wasn't sure how
close he would come to reaching
his goal, and living out one of his
dreafis of playing college foot
ball.
"It was up in the air for a little
while," Six said. "I really didn't
know who wanted to take a
chance with me because of my
injury and all."
Propst added: "Heck, we
knew somebody was going to
take a chance with Six. We knew
he was going to get a scholarship
somewhere."
Turns out that Propst couldn't
have been more correct.
Charleston Southern ultimately
gave Six a chance to fulfill his
dream of playing college football.
And he made sure that his chances
didn't slip away after he signed a
national letter of intent last week.
"That was more of a relief
than excitement." Six said. "I
don't have that hanging over my
See Reynolds on B3
Ptnxo by Anthony Hill
Reynolds head football coach Mike Propst sits between Michael Six (left) and James Hall after
they signed their scholarships last week.
Nine players sign
to play with Rams
Signees
Name, Pus., High School
Michael Miller. DL.
Eau Claire
Quinten Jones. DL.
W. Mecklenberg
Bennie Bartx>ur. OL.
Smithfield
Harold Bennett. K/P-Retum.
West Forsyth
Chas Sampson. DL/DE.
Pine Forest
Thaddeus Griffin. LB.
Crestwood
Michael Helton.OL.
Crestwood
Steven Jordan. OL,
J.A. Holmes
Justin Sherrod, QB.
Westover
C HRONICLE STAFF RhlfiRj
The old adage is that the
rich get richer.
That statement holds
true for the Winston-Salem
State University football
program as the powerful
Rams have once again got
ten even stronger as head
coach Kermit Blount
announced last Friday that
WSSU has signed nine play
ers to national letters of
intent to play f<x?tball for the
Rams.
The Rams, who finished
the 2003 season on a four
game winning streak in
which they outscored their
opponents 181-42 and post
ed two shutouts, have bol
stered an already formidable
lineup with their 2004
signees.
The players who have
announced their intent to
play football for the Rams
are listed to the left.
Busted!
What is going on at
Eastern Alamance?
FROM THE
HUDDLE
Anthony
Hill
I have one question for most
of you: What in the heck is going
on in Eastern Alamance County?
Most of you have heard
about the huge drug raid that
took place at Eastern Alamance
High School last week. One of
the kids arrested was the state's
all-time leading men's basketball
scorer, JamesOn Curry.
"Certainly the arrests of stu
dents, including some student
athletes, in the Alamance
r? i ? _
Dumng
t o n
school
system
on vari
ous drug
re 1 ated
charges
repre
sents a
dark day
for high
school
Curry
sports in
North Carolina," said Charlie
Adams, executive director of the
N.C. High School Athletic Asso
ciation. "It is difficult to imaginr
going from the top of the moun
tain and a player who is North
Carolina's all-time leading scor
er, to being arrested.
"But unfortunately, in many
ways it's a sign of the times and
the drug-infested culture in
which we live," Adams contin
ued. Sadly enough, the lives of
many young people have been
changed by the kinds of situa
tions that some of our student
athletes now find themselves in,
and they will have to live with
the consequences of poor deci
sions."
Dang, things have changed a
great deal since I was in school.
Sure, there were drugs and even
arrests, but athletes rarely got
caught in all the drama. I'm not
saying the athletes of my genera
tion didn't do anything wrong. I
am simply saying that we didn't
do anything wrong during the
season. But most of the athletes
who were into some shady things
(the ones that 1 knew), whether it
was smoking, fighting or what
ever, would at least stop what
shady activities they might have
been into until the season was
over.. That didn't make them
first-class citizens, but hey, it at
least got them on the field on Fri
day nights, and on the court dur
ing game days.
Athletes these days think
they can get away with murder.
For some reason they don't think
anybody is watching them either.
They couldn't be more wrong.
See Hill on B7
Marion
Returns
'
Abaca Press
After two years
off from compet
ing, Marion Jones
returned to the
track Friday at the
Verizon Millrose
Games at Madi
son Square Gar
den in New York
City. Jones, who
had a . baby dur
ing her time off,
won the Women's
60 meters at the
event. Left, Jones
waves at fans
before the start of
the race.
Reynolds Park
bailers playing
with passion
BY ANTHONY HILL
THE CHRONICLE I
The action at Reynolds Park simply doesn't seem to slow
down. The bailers put on another great show for fans over the
weekend.
"I told you that it's exciting every >
weekend over here at Reynolds Park."
said director Bryant McCorkle. "The
parking lot isn't as full as it was last
weekend, hut the games were just as
exciting."
The first game in the 1 4- 1 8- year-old
division was between the red-hot And 1
Classics and the hungry and feisty Rams
squad, led by John Kiser. The And I
Classics have made themselves into the
team to beat after'beginning the season
with an undefeated mark.
The Rams were trying to put a blemish on that perfect record
by adding a little bit of size to its roster. The Rams looked more
Sto Bailers on B4
Wright
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